Election season, and changes, draw near

3:28 PM,
Feb. 28, 2014

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So North Carolina's General Assembly set out last year to modify election laws, and modify it did, and then some. One of the modifications critics howled about were changes to early voting, cutting voting days from 17 to 10.

In defense of the move, it was pointed out while the number of days was cut, the number of hours wasn't.

Gov. Pat McCrory said on CNN: "We didn't shorten early voting. We compacted the calendar, but we're going to have the same hours in which polls are open in early voting, and we're going to have more polls available. In fact, the legislation does not shorten the hours for early ...